Spreuken over Architectuur
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Letter - 59 Spreuken
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
DetailA city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.
DetailA great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
DetailA house is a machine for living in.
DetailAn architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
DetailArchitects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.
DetailArchitecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
DetailArchitecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
DetailArchitecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
DetailArchitecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
DetailArchitecture is the art of how to waste space.
DetailArchitecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
DetailArchitecture is the reaching out for the truth.
DetailArchitecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
DetailArchitecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
DetailArchitecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
DetailAs a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.
DetailAt a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
DetailBuilding art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
DetailBuildings should serve people, not the other way around.
DetailBut the building's identity resided in the ornament.
DetailCities are the greatest creations of humanity.
DetailColor in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
DetailDesigned by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.
DetailDon't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
DetailEven at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.
DetailEvery building is a prototype. No two are alike.
DetailEvery great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
DetailFor many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.
DetailForm follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
DetailGreat buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
DetailI am but an architectural composer.
DetailI believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
DetailI don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
DetailI don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
DetailI hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
DetailI have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
DetailI love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.
DetailI try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
DetailIf I have a style, I am not aware of it.
DetailIf you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
DetailIn any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
DetailIn Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.
DetailIt is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
DetailMake big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
DetailMy buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.
DetailMy buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
DetailMy passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.
DetailNo architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.
DetailNot many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
DetailNothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
DetailProportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
DetailRome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.
DetailSpace has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
DetailThe bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.
DetailThe dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.
DetailThe frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.
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